Quote:
"The idea of Marilyn Bell, and the historical event itself, are re-constructed through a variety of techniques [in Our Marilyn]. On the one hand, a mix of 'official' discourses of information, various media representations, such as newspaper headlines, popular songs of the times, 'authentic' radio broadcasts, and archival newsreel footage offer authorial sources. On the other hand, the manner in which a sense of a past self is evoked, in the re-presentation of a historical figure, wildly pulls away from the effects of these documentary conventions. For the third Marilyn, the 'I' of the piece, is the fabricated narrator of the film. An investigative agent, she both historically situates Marilyn Bell's swim through her memory and provides the film's through-line; all the elements pass through her."
-- Kass Banning

Source:
Banning, Kass. "The Canadian Feminist Hybrid Documentary." CineAction, no. 26/27 (Winter 1992). (p. 113)